Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.